smartTrade Technologies Liquidity Management System (LMS)
smartTrade Technologies is the financial industry’s cross-asset liquidity management system (LMS) that enables firms to manage their liquidity for best execution, smart routing orders for one or more asset classes across the trading room as well as across regional and global trading operations, enhanced client servicing and tighter control of flow for risk management.
Used by banks, broker-dealers, asset managers and large hedge funds, smartTrade Technologies LMS can be deployed on a cross-asset basis or implemented by single or multi-asset product sets for:
- Best execution under MiFID and Reg NMS/OATS
- Internalization and crossing of orders with and without obligation of transparency
- Smart order routing (SOR), including managing and reconciling the lifecycles of orders
- High-frequency trading
- Dark pools for client trading
- Multi-leg trading
- Multi-asset trading, i.e., inter-listed securities that can be traded on multiple geographic exchanges
- LiquidityDistribution including the ability to create custom distribution strategies for Market Data, Price Spreading, and Trading Limits Management
Modular and componentized, LMS is comprised of five essential pillars:
- LiquidityAggregator™ – combines liquidity from various external and internal sources within a single order book, drawn from streaming quotes, live resting orders, indicative prices and requests via RFQs and RFS
- LiquidityDistributor™ a highly scalable component that enables organizations to create custom distribution strategies for Market Data, Price Spreading, and Trading Limits Management.
- LiquidityCrosser™ – a fast, scalable matching engine that provides traders with the choice of how they want their client flow to behave, e.g., having their clients’ orders matched internally
- LiquidityOrchestrator™ – enables traders to define their rules for smart order routing (SOR), aggregation and matching, permitting an infinite combination of execution strategies and SOR possibilities to be achieved
- LiquidityConnect™ – a new, highly configurable trading-connectivity platform with comprehensive connectors to various liquidity sources, connect, receives and sends messages from multiple sources using different formats and network protocols
All five pillars can be used individually or in combination, allowing firms to select precisely how they want to manage their liquidity to support their unique value proposition to clients and to enhance the functionality of their existing infrastructure.
As a platform, smartTrade Technologies LMS is highly scalable, lightweight to deploy and has been implemented to very low latencies, for example, by high-frequency trading desks.
Through smartTrade Technologies LMS traders can choose to utilize a personalized combination and hierarchy of how they want LMS to act when orders are received or already reside in the platform. Rules can be provided, empowering them to decide to cross an order internally before sending the order to the market, setting rules to cross the order, smart route the order to the market and what the smart router should do in the event an order can be crossed internally after it has been sent to the market. Using LMS, firms now have the ability to own and interact with their flow, enabling them to leverage both their internal opportunities with market opportunities for best execution.